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FDA labels Ecstasy a breakthrough treatment For PTSD

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has designated 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine, known as ecstasy, a breakthrough therapy for the treatment post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Eight million people suffer from PTSD annually. Thanks to this designation, the drug could have a faster path to pharmaceutical approval. RELATED ARTICLE: DEA approves a study using Ecstasy to treat PTSD The Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) announced the FDA’s ruling last week. Now, they can move forward on two of their upcoming “Phase 3” trials. The trials will include 200 to 300 participants, accepting its first test subjects in 2018. “For the first time, psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy will...

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Parents of baby killed by hospital offered settlement

In July 2016, the Sydney family was celebrating the birth of their sweet newborn, John Ghanem. But it was short lived. After the New South Wales, Australia hospital staff accidentally gave the newborn nitrous oxide instead of oxygen, he passed away. We cannot imagine their grief. Now, more than a year later, the family is being offered an interim payment by the NSW government. The reason it took so long? “Legal wranglings.” Instead of just paying them for their life-ending mistake, the parents- Sonya and Youssef Ghanem- were asked to “provide seven years of treatment records, three years of...

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Pesticides linked to birth abnormalities in major new study

Researchers from the University of California, Santa Barbara, compared 500,000 birth records for people born in the San Joaquin Valley between 1997 and 2011 and levels of pesticides used in the area. The average use of pesticides over that period was about 975kg for each 2.6sq km area per year. RELATED ARTICLE: How to remove pesticides from your produce But, for pregnant women in areas where 4,000kg of pesticides was used, the chance of giving birth prematurely rose by about 8 per cent and the chance of having a birth abnormality by about 9 per cent. Writing in the journal Nature...

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Man VS Earth… What have we done?

I like a lot of things but I LOVE this. Please take 5 minutes to watch this video and share it with your friends. And make sure to watch until the very end. It is our responsibility to care for this earth. We cannot assume someone else is going to do it, especially since we know so many are not, no- we must be the change our earth NEEDS to see. It starts with us. What can you do? Well, “going green” is easier than you might think. Please click here for some easy yet impactful ideas.  XO-...

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This miracle weed killer was supposed to save farms. Instead, it’s devastating them.

  The pressures that farmers feel are intense. So, when they were promised that the new dicamba herbicide system would “break the cycle and guarantee weed control in soybeans and cotton,” and be less “risky and volatile” than earlier versions, 1 they were elated. Especially given the fact that their income from soybeans had been in decline for 14 straight quarters. However, dicamba has caused a crisis and now farmers are angry and worried about their livelihoods. RELATED ARTICLE: Monsanto Celebrates Approval of New Dicamba Herbicide and Fights Dirty to Silence Cancer Scientists One big issue is that dicamba is...

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